Weimar on the Pacific : German exile culture in Los Angeles and the crisis of modernism / Ehrhard Bahr.
"In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals--including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg--who had fled Nazi Germany. During their years in exile, they woul...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The Dialectic of Modernism
- 2. Art and Its Resistance to Society: Theodor W. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
- 3. Bertolt Brecht's California Poetry: Mimesis or Modernism?
- 4. The Dialectic of Modern Science: Brecht's Galileo
- 5. Epic Theater versus Film Noir: Bertolt Brecht andFritz Lang's Anti-Nazi Film Hangmen Also Die
- 6. California Modern as Immigrant Modernism: Architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph M. Schindler
- 7. Between Modernism and Antimodernism: Franz Werfel
- 8. Renegade Modernism: Alfred Dòˆblin's NovelKarl and Rosa
- 9. The Political Battleground of Exile Modernism: The Council for a Democratic Germany
- 10. Evil Germany versus Good Germany: Thomas Mann'sDoctor Faustus
- 11. A "True Modernist" : Arnold Schoenberg
- Conclusion: The Weimar Legacy of Los Angeles
- Chronology
- Appendices. I. Addresses of Weimar Exiles and Exile Institutionsin Los Angeles ; II. Filmography: Hangmen Also Die ; III. Text of the Kol Nidre ; IV. Lord Byron's "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte" ; V. Text of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor of Warsaw
- Bibliography
- Index.